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In words like weeds I'll wrap me o'er	A
Like coarsest clothes against the cold	B
But that large grief which these enfold	B
Is given in outline and no more	C
TENNYSON	D
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The bells that lift their yawning throats	E
And lolling tongues with wrangling cries	F
Flung up in harsh discordant notes	E
As though in anger at the skies	F
Are filled with echoings replete	G
With purest tinkles of delight	H
So I would have a something sweet	G
Ring in the song I sing to night	H
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As when a blotch of ugly guise	F
On some poor artist's naked floor	C
Becomes a picture in his eyes	F
And he forgets that he is poor	I
So I look out upon the night	H
That ushers in the dawning year	J
And in a vacant blur of light	H
I see these fantasies appear	J
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I see a home whose windows gleam	K
Like facets of a mighty gem	L
That some poor king's distorted dream	K
Has fastened in his diadem	L
And I behold a throng that reels	M
In revelry of dance and mirth	N
With hearts of love beneath their heels	M
And in their bosoms hearts of earth	N
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O Luxury as false and grand	O
As in the mystic tales of old	B
When genii answered man's command	O
And built of nothing halls of gold	B
O Banquet bright with pallid jets	P
And tropic blooms and vases caught	Q
In palms of naked statuettes	P
Ye can not color as ye ought	R
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For crouching in the storm without	S
I see the figure of a child	T
In little ragged roundabout	S
Who stares with eyes that never smiled	T
And he in fancy can but taste	U
The dainties of the kingly fare	V
And pick the crumbs that go to waste	U
Where none have learned to kneel in prayer	V
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Go Pride and throw your goblet down	W
The 'merry greeting' best appears	X
On loving lips that never drown	W
Its worth but in the wine of tears	Y
Go close your coffers like your hearts	Z
And shut your hearts against the poor	I
Go strut through all your pretty parts	Z
But take the 'Welcome' from your door	C

James Whitcomb Riley

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